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The campfire has been in the center of social life since the
beginning of the time of man. Primordial man (Homo erectus) was
already warming his body by the fire a good million years ago. Fire
not only gave warmth and light, dried wet clothing, and cooked meat,
but was also sacred and healing. It was the sun spirit or the
heavenly fire that had taken up residence among the people. The ring
of boulders that were placed around the fire were the original
medicine wheel. The stone circle became the focus (in Latin, focus
means fireplace) of the sacred. Later, in the Neolithic period, stone
circles such as Stonehenge took on gigantic proportions. (From
Müller-Ebeling et al, Witchcraft Medicine, 2003)